Work Your B.A. 2017

Every year, in conjunction with CaPS (Career Planning Service) the AUS holds Work Your B.A. an annual series of panels that helps students answer the fateful question: “So, what are you going to do after you graduate?” Below is this year’s Work Your B.A. schedule

So…“What are you going to do after you graduate?!”

The question is no doubt familiar, and potentially anxiety-provoking, to any student or soon-to-be Arts graduate, and it can be a challenging one to answer. The possibilities are many, and career paths and transitions often make much more sense in hindsight that they do when you are right in the midst of them. Learning about the routes that others have followed can often be helpful when you’re thinking about your own options, so if you’re looking for ideas, information, inspiration, motivation and advice, come to Work Your BA organized by McGill’s Career Planning Service (CaPS) and the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS). Register here on MyFuture.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Come to Work Your BA events to explore, learn about options and different paths, and gain ideas, information, inspiration, motivation and advice! Organized by McGill’s Career Planning Service (CaPS) and the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS).

CaPS and AUS are organizing a buffet of events to feed your career curiosity from the NGO/Non Profit Fair to career panel discussions to a great roundtable event to help you meet and learn from professionals in a wide variety of fields. In particular this year, many of the events revolve around the theme of social justice, and community and political engagement.

B.A. Lawyer. Is Law School for You? Get the Scoop!
January 25th, 4:30 – 6:00pm
New Chancellor Day Hall, Room 101

Law School. Should you go? What’s it like? How do you get in? What types of careers does it lead to? This event will feature information and advice from McGill’s Assistant Dean of Admissions and Recruitment, current law students and several law graduates.

Wondering what to do this summer and how to look for opportunities? Join CaPS and the Arts Internship Office (AIO) for this joint workshop and learn about effective job search strategies, summer job and internship opportunities, and AIO awards.

Thinking of a Career with the UN?
January 27th, 3:00 – 4:30 pm
SSMU Ballroom

Passionate about international issues? Human rights? Development? Then you won’t want to miss our guest speaker from the UN in New York, who will help you understand what a career at the UN might look like and how to get there!

Speaker:

Ms. Leslie Cleland, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Resources Management in the Office of Human Resources Management of the UN in New York.

Looking for something interesting and productive to do this summer? Returning to full-time studies in the fall? Apply for FSWEP to be considered for one of 9,000+ Federal Government jobs across Canada. Options range from outdoor field work and research to office positions in administration, IT and finance, from work in trades to policy and communications and many more. Interested? Come learn more from presenter Christian McIntyre, Human Resources Advisor, Public Service Commission.

Passionate about issues of social justice? Want to make a difference in your career? Come hear from inspiring BA grads who will share their stories, insights and advice about what their positions entail and what it takes to work in this field.

SPEAKERS;

Kira Page, Communications and Membership Engagement Coordinator at Centre for Community Organizations (COCo)

Raoul Gebert, Research Fellow, Interuniversity Research Centre for Globalization and Work (CRIMT) and Lecturer, Université de Montréal; previously Chief of Staff, Office of the Leader of the Official Opposition

Wondering about career possibilities and options following your BA? Inspiration awaits at the “It Starts with Arts” roundtable. At the event, students will have the chance to meet and talk briefly with professionals from a diverse range of fields who have used their BAs as a springboard to launch their careers!

Andrew is the CEO and co-founder of InvestEco Capital. Andrew sits on a number of corporate boards, including Vital Farms, 100km Foods, Farms & Forks and Maple Hill Creamery. Andrew is also a director of the Tides Canada Foundation and CanadaHelps.org. In addition, he sits on the Steering Committee of Sustainable Prosperity and he is an advisor to the MGA program at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. Andrew was the chair of the Premier’s Climate Change Advisory Panel for the Province of Ontario from 2008 to 2012. Andrew is the author of The New Entrepreneurs: Building a Green Economy for the Future. Andrew has a BA and an MA from McGill University.Robert Walsh, BA, MBA, JD
Chief Financial Crime Officer & Deputy Chief Compliance Officer, AXA Group
Feb. 8th 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm, Brown 2200 (CaPS Library)

Bob Walsh has global responsibility for financial crime compliance at AXA. This includes AML, international sanctions and anti-bribery. In addition he is AXA Group’s Deputy Chief Compliance Officer. Outside of AXA he chairs the Sanctions in Insurance Roundtable, which is an informal association of the world’s largest insurers, reinsurers and brokers, who collaborate with senior public sector officials on the intersection of international sanctions issues and international commercial insurance. He has also participated as a private sector representative in FATF consultative meetings and the US Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group. Bob studied at McGill University, Osgoode Hall Law School and the Ivey School of Business.

Registration required throughmyFuture. From your homepage, click on the Events tab followed by the Workshop tab and keyword ARTS/BA 2016